Quotes About Conflict

Life would be unbearably bland if we had no enemies on whom to waste efforts and energy.

awareness of a problem does not mean much—particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.

A king, angry at his son, swore that he would crush him with a large stone.

A mild degree of unpredictability in your behavior can help you to protect yourself in situations of conflict. Say

This visible tension between individual and collective interests is new in history…

There is no problem if people have a conflict of interest if it is congruous with downside risk for themselves.

we would see that their wishes and hopes are almost invariably at someone else's expense.

Always remember that, in a modern environment, wars last longer and kill more people than is typically planned.

It is a very powerful manipulation to let others win the small battles.

That awareness of a problem does not mean much—particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.

Less is more: Truth is lost with too much altercation

Se você não gostar de uma pessoa, deixe-a em paz ou a exclua da sua vida; não a ataque verbalmente.

way too many cooks in the same tiny kitchen, most of whom never have to taste the food.

This point has applications in evolutionary biology, evolutionary game theory, and conflict situations. A mild degree of unpredictability in your behavior can help you to protect yourself in situations of conflict.

Kun nainen huutaa, että tekosi oli anteeksiantamaton, hän on jo alkanut antaa anteeksi.

la conciencia de un problema no significa mucho, sobre todo cuando están en juego intereses personales o instituciones interesadas.

One would suppose that people living through the beginning of WWII had an inkling that something momentous was taking place. Not at all.fn3

We saw with the minority rule that the intolerant will run over the tolerant;

Esse é o argumento que David Hume, em sua História da Inglaterra,5 apresenta em favor dos pequenos Estados, já que os grandes cedem à sedução da guerra.

Which brings us to what is known as the agency problem.

They fought about politics. Angelica's husband has ironclad ideas and doesn't like them to be questioned.' 'If they were really ironclad he wouldn't mind discussing them. If he gets that angry, it means his ideas are more like cheese than iron.' (Happiness, As Such)

No tienes autoridad!», le gritaba mi padre despertándola por la noche. Pero por otro lado, él también demostró no tenerla, porque Paola continuó paseando durante años con aquel joven bajito, y lo dejó cuando la cosa se apagó sola, poco a poco, como se apaga la luz de una vela.

That doesn't sound like civil war to me, said Gaylen, turning back to his book with a smile. It only sounds silly. Of course it's silly, said the Prime Minister impatiently. But a lot of serious things start silly.

They've really begun the war, he said to himself. And all over a word in a dictionary, the ninnies!